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The Brilliant Comic Who Shined Brightest Out of the Spotlight
New York Times· 2 days agoA new biography of the performer, writer and director Elaine May has the intensity to match its subject.
The Best Books of the Year (So Far)
New York Times· 4 days agoIn this reworking of the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” Jim, the enslaved man who accompanies Huck down the Mississippi River, is the narrator, and he...
Who was Anna May Wong?
Real Change News· 7 days agoA year before her 1961 demise, film star Anna May Wong joked with a reporter, “My epitaph should be: I died a thousand deaths.” Katie Gee Salisbury’s biography of Wong, “Not ...
Rayner hits out at Tories after police take no further action over house row
Press Association News via AOL· 4 hours agoDeputy Labour leader Angela Rayner said the Conservative-triggered police investigation was an...
Review: Carolyn Montgomery Connects to Rosemary Clooney at 54 Below
Broadway World· 2 days agoAt 54 Below on a spring night, there were perhaps as many cabaret singers in the packed audience as...
The Genius of Ella Fitzgerald
The Nation· 12 hours agoElla Fitzgerald made singing feel like thinking. Fitzgerald was also, observers in her lifetime mused, a “lamb,” a “pretty bird,” “an innocent with the musical capacity of a sweet wizard.” Perhaps ...
Caleb Carr, Author of Dark Histories, Dies at 68
New York Times· 4 days agoMr. Carr was 39 when he published “The Alienist,” an atmospheric detective story about a child psychiatrist — or an alienist, as those who studied the...
7 John Travolta Movies That Are Total Failures, According To Rotten Tomatoes - SlashFilm
/Film· 3 days agoMuch like fellow screen legend Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta's modern career choices have been...
She Was More Than the Woman Who Made Julia Child Famous
New York Times· 4 days agoIn “The Editor,” Sara B. Franklin argues that Judith Jones was a “publishing legend,” transcending...
The 24 Best New Book Releases This Week: May 21-27, 2024
Parade· 4 days agoFrom Stephen King to Nora Roberts (and even picture books!), we've got them all. And the late Tom...